Quantifying the Contours of Power: Chief Justice Roberts & Justice Kennedy in Criminal Justice Cases

This Article seeks to contribute to the debate with an empirical analysis of voting behavior in criminal justice cases decided during the first ten Terms of the Roberts Court era. The following section presents the study’s case selection and introduces the types of measures used to illuminate influence on the High Court (Part II). Court- and individual-level tendencies (Part III) identify potential spheres of influence occupied by Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy. These bases of judicial power are examined separately in Part IV (Chief Justice Roberts) and Part V (Justice Kennedy). Some possible implications of Justice Scalia’s death on these power bases are addressed in Part VI

Design and Analysis of Filament Wound Composite Pressure Vessel with Integrated-end Domes

Filament-wound composite pressure vessels are an important type of high-pressure container that is widely used in the commercial and aerospace industries. The pressure vessels with integrated end domes develop hoop stresses that are twice longitudinal stresses and when isotropic materials like metals are used for realizing the hardware, the material is not fully utilized in the longitudinal/meridonial direction resulting in over weight components. On the other hand FRP composite materials with their higher specific strength and moduli and tailoribility characteristics will result in reduction of weight of the structure. The determination of a proper winding angle and thickness is very important to decrease manufacturing difficulties and to increase structural efficiency. In this study, material characterization of FRP of carbon T300/Epoxy for various configurations as per ASTM standards is experimentally determined using filament winding and matched die mould technique. The mechanical and physical properties thus obtained are used in the design of the composite shell. The design of the composite shell is described in detail. Netting analysis is used for the calculation of hoop and helical thickness of the shell. A balanced symmetric ply sequence for carbon T300/epoxy is considered for the entire pressure vessel. Progressive failure analysis of composite pressure vessel with geodesic end domes is carried out. A software code SHELL Solver is developed using Classical Lamination-theory to determine matrix crack failure, burst pressure values at various positions of the shell. The results can be utilized to understand structural characteristics of filament wound pressure vessels with integrated end domes.Defence Science Journal, 2009, 59(1), pp.73-81, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.59.148

Nitric Oxide Bioavailability and Its Potential Relevance to the Variation in Susceptibility to the Renal and Vascular Complications in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

OBJECTIVE—We compared the renal and systemic vascular (renovascular) response to a reduction of bioavailable nitric oxide (NO) in type 2 diabetic patients without nephropathy and of African and Caucasian heritage. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—Under euglycemic conditions, renal blood flow was determined by a constant infusion of paraminohippurate and changes in blood pressure and renal vascular resistance estimated before and after an infusion of l-Ng-monomethyl-l-arginine. RESULTS—In the African-heritage group, there was a significant fall in renal blood flow (Δ−46.0 ml/min per 1.73 m(2); P < 0.05) and rise in systolic blood pressure (Δ10.0 mmHg [95% CI 2.3–17.9]; P = 0.017), which correlated with an increase in renal vascular resistance (r(2) = 0.77; P = 0.004). CONCLUSIONS—The renal vasoconstrictive response associated with NO synthase inhibition in this study may be of relevance to the observed vulnerability to renal injury in patients of African heritage

Chief Justice William Rehnquist: His Law-and-Order Legacy and Impact on Criminal Justice

In this article, we explore Chief Justice Rehnquist’s criminal justice decisions through an empirical analysis of the Court’s decision-making tendencies for the most recent natural court and a review of selected criminal justice decisions written by Justice Rehnquist throughout his career. To start, we limit the analysis, with only two exceptions, to decisions actually written by Justice Rehnquist. Although Chief Justice Rehnquist, in that position, had an important role in leading other justices to agree with him by assigning cases, we gleaned a substantial amount of information regarding his decisional patterns and policy preferences by analyzing the opinions he personally authored. The focus of this inquiry, then, is Justice Rehnquist’s actual opinions and not his votes in other cases. This empirical analysis is complemented and given context by a discussion of the overall thrust of criminal justice cases decided by the Court in the last decade...In Section II we provide a brief biographical sketch of Justice Rehnquist’s education and career. We then analyze the criminal justice decisions of the most recent Rehnquist Court using cases from 1995-2005 in Section III. This time frame captures Rehnquist’s last natural court with the exception of the first term. Although Justice Breyer–the last member to join the Court of interest here–served a full term in 1994, we do not include the 1994-1995 Term to avoid the risk that Breyer’s performance (and the Court’s more general decision patterns) might have been distorted by the “freshman effect.” In Section IV we extend the period under review and examine some of Justice Rehnquist’s written opinions, both as an Associate Justice and as Chief Justice. In the final section, we discuss the overall impact of Justice Rehnquist’s decisions on criminal justice issues and revisit the characterization of Rehnquist as central to a “law and order” shift

Detection of Compromised Accounts in Online Social Networks

Social behavioral profile appropriately reflects a user’s OSN activity patterns. People get right of entry to OSNs using both conventional computer PCs and new emerging cellular devices. With multiple billion customers global, OSNs are a brand new venue of innovation with many difficult studies issues. In this paper, we look at the social behaviors of OSN customers, i.e., their utilization of OSN offerings, and the utility of which in detecting the compromised accounts. We capture user conduct with the subsequent metrics: user connectivity, user hobby and user reactions. We validate and represent the person social hobby on OSN. The take a look at is based totally on distinct ClickStream data, the ClickStream data reveals key features of the social network workloads, consisting of how frequently humans connect to social networks and for a way lengthy, in addition to the kinds and sequences of activities that users conduct on those websites. We take note of the traits of social behaviors were view malicious behaviors of OSN users and show the social behavioral profiles can correctly differentiate man or woman OSN users and discover compromised account

Implementing Provable Security and Group Key Agreement for Conbe Scheme

encoding is used during a communication system to secure data within the transmitted messages from anyone apart from the well intended receiver. To perform the encryption and decryption the transmitter and receiver should have matching encoding and decryption keys. For causing safeguard data to group required broadcast encoding (BE). BE permits a sender to securely broadcast to any set of members and need a trusted party to distribute decryption keys. Group key agreement (GKA) protocol permits variety of users to determine a common secret channel via open networks. Observing that a significant goal of GKA for many applications is to make a confidential channel among group members, however a sender cannot omit any explicit member from decrypting the cipher texts. By bridging BE and GKA notion with a hybrid primitive said as contributory broadcast encoding (CBE). With these primitives, a bunch of members move through a standard public encoding key whereas every member having their secret writing key; A sender seeing the general public cluster encoding key will limit the secret writing to set of members of sender‘s selection. An easy way to generate these keys is to use the general public key distribution system invented by Diffie and Hellman. That system, however, pass only 1 combine of communication stations to share a specific combine of encoding and secret writing keys. Key distribution sets are used to generate keys and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is used for the encoding and decryption of documents; and this tends to give the protection for the documents over group communication

Aberrant transcriptionin fit mutants ofEscherichia coli and its alleviation by suppressor mutations

Earlier work from this laboratory had identified, mapped and characterised an intragenic suppressor(fitA24) as well as an extragenic suppressor(fitB) for the temperature-sensitive transcription defective mutationfitA76 inEscherichia coli In this communication we report the results of experiments on RNA synthesis and decay of pulse labelled RNA in strains harbouringfit A76,fitB, fitA24, fitA76-fitA24, fitA76-fitB mutation(s) as well as in the isogenicfitA + fitB+ strain. Taken together with earlier results, this indicates that thefitA andfitB gene products could be involved in the expression of some classes of genes including genes coding for ribosomal proteins. The implications of these results for thein vivo control of transcription inEscherichia coli are discussed

Development and histogenesis of human foetal lung in relation with gestational age

Background:The objective was to study the development and histogenesis of human foetal lung in relation with different gestational age.Methods:In the present study lung specimens were collected from formalin fixed 27 aborted foetuses (14 male, 13 female) by abdominal dissection between 6 weeks to 40 weeks of gestational age.Results:In the present study we observed that there was a delay in the appearance of embryonic, pseudo glandular phase, canalicular, terminal saccular and alveolar stages of the lung.Conclusion:Delay in the developmental anatomy and histogenesis of the lung cells leads to histopathological abnormalities which gives knowledge to the clinicians during clinical procedures